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Ethics, Obligation, and the Responsibility to Protect: Contesting the Global Power Relations of Accountability

Ethics, Obligation, and the Responsibility to Protect: Contesting the Global Power Relations of Accountability

Busser, Mark

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Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0367728583
ISBN13: 9780367728588
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 188
Language: English

This book critically examines arguments about 'obligation' and 'responsibility' in relation to the responsibility to protect (R2P) and situates it within wider moral argumentation concerning the role of culpability, answerability, and human rights in international affairs.



It discusses the ways in which R2P has been imagined and contested in order to illuminate some possible trajectories through which its potential might be actualized. Crucial to the development of a more 'responsible' world politics will be the recognition that formal inter-state 'regimes' of responsibility will need to be embedded within wider social 'fields' of responsibility constituted by the participation of attentive and mobilized global citizens ready to hold elites accountable. This book provides novel ideas to better understand the role of rhetoric and moral argumentation in international relations. Much of the novel contribution comes in the form of its conceptual breakdown of the ambiguous concept of 'responsibility, ' which often clouds clear understanding not only in international relations, but also in the specific debates over the ethics and practice of the international responsibility to protect regime.

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